Jeremiah Joyce concludes on scientific reasoning that the moon is inhabited.
Jeremiah Joyce, Scientific Dialogues for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young People (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855), 154
Ja. Is the moon, then, inhabited, as well as the earth?
Fa. Though we cannot demonstrate this fact, yet there are many reasons to induce us to believe it: for the moon, though a secondary planet, is yet of considerable size;—and when viewed through a good telescope, its surface appears diversified, like that of the earth, with mountains and valleys. . . . Hence we are led to conclude that, like the earth, the moon also is inhabited.